FedEx to Stop Using Mainframes, Close All Data Centers By 2024; It’s time: Ki-l your mainframes

"We’ve shifted to cloud...we’ve been eliminating monolithic applications one after the
other after the other...we’re moving to a zero data center, zero mainframe
environment that’s more flexible, secure, and cost-effective."

https://www.pcmag.com/news/fedex-to-stop-using-mainframes-close-all-data-centers-by-2024

Despite the move to the cloud, IBM, the last major manufacturer of mainframes,
continues to release new versions with attractive features like improved fraud
detection. Still, like other parts of IBM, the company seems to be two steps behind.

https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/protocol-enterprise/mainframe-fedex-cloud-china-asml

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Zzzzzz...

OK.. FEDEX stops using their mainframe datacenter. And they "moved to the cloud". Hmm. It isn't the cloud in the sky; it's a (possibly mainframe based) server farm in Podunk or East Jamoke somewhere.
That will work great until the internet takes a hit. (I bet the Chinese know that). Something, somewhere has to run all that code. Legacy mainframe code "in the clouds" - it is to laugh. Just what was accomplished - other than putting your business operations in a remote spot that "could" possibly be unreachable if a calamity struck? Stupid is as stupid does.

"Till the internet goes down" the first thing i'd hit if i was at war with a country. Can you imagine the disaster this would bring??? no tv, no internet, no communications, supply chain fecked,

It has been known for more than a year than Fedex wants to move away from Mainframes. That is OK. Most Z customers are actually increasing their usage of the mainframes. The Z16 demand is very high. Now, no doubt that some customers are abandoning the Mainframe, but that is a small percentage.

Similar announcements now coming from a little handful of Nordic IBM Mainframe clients.

It appears the worldwide Mainframe exodus is epidemic in nature.

Secure? Your workloads running on someone else's iron?

I remember in Poughkeepsie 25 years ago that they were saying the age of the Mainframe is over blah blah blah...but here I am 25 years later still working on Mainframes and at this point I don't care anymore, my big fat retirement that's been in the works from 1984 is HERE ! As usual IBM got it wrong.

Till the internet goes down

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